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E-Books from Your Public Library Now Available on Your Phone

With the proliferation of e-readers and e-reader apps for devices like the iPad, iPhone and Google Android smartphones, there are plenty of ways to download books wherever you are. Most of them require you to pay for them.

But what if you could check a book out from the library from wherever you were, straight to your phone? That’s been possible for audio books for a while, thanks to software from OverDrive.